[im] gender swap experiment

[János Sugár]

Gender Swap is an experiment that uses themachinetobeanother.org 
system as a platform for embodiment experience (a neuroscience 
technique in which users can feel themselves like if they were in a 
different body). In order to create the brain illusion we use the 
immersive Head Mounted Display Oculus Rift, and first-person cameras. 
To create this perception, both users have to synchronise their 
movements. If one does not correspond to the movement of the other, 
the embodiment experience does not work. It means that both users 
have to constantly agree on every movement they make. Through out 
this experiment, we aim to investigate issues like Gender Identity, 
Queer Theory, feminist technoscience, Intimacy and Mutual Respect.
https://vimeo.com/84150219